Wait, here's a better idea: Check out our annual gift guide -- we've come up with some great ideas for tech gear to give and get.

We have recommendations for more than 45 gifts in every price range, from a $5 phone-holding strap to an $800 premium smartphone. You'll find envy-inducing speakers and smartwatches, keyboards and cameras, chargers and tchotchkes -- and a host of other fun and useful products.

* Smartphone prices are for unlocked phones; subsidized prices may be available with carrier contracts.

We've focused on the most up-to-date versions of products like smartphones and tablets, but you can often save a chunk of change by opting for earlier models -- that is, if you know your gift recipients won't mind missing out on some of the latest features. (See our 2014 holiday gift guide for some of last year's hottest tech.)

Happy holidays!

Holiday gift guide 2015 contributors

Rick Broida has written about all manner of technology, from Amigas to business servers to PalmPilots, for more than 20 years in dozens of books, blogs and magazines. He sleeps with an iPad under his pillow.

Michael deAgonia, a contributing writer for Computerworld, is a computer consultant and technology geek who has been working on computers since 1993, with an emphasis on Macs, OS X and iOS.

Ken Gagne, a former editor for Computerworld, covers gaming, crowdfunding and retrocomputing. You can see him on the YouTube channel Gamebits and hear him as host of the Polygamer and IndieSider podcasts.